Senior Compliance Specialist

Senior Compliance Specialist

Location: Amsterdam Hybrid

Hours: Full-Time

Contract: 6 Months (Freelancers only)

Languages: English

About the Role

For one of our international partners we are seeking an experienced Senior Compliance Specialist to design and operationalise a robust privacy governance and violation management operating model.

This role will establish the decision-making framework, accountability model and operational processes required to transform privacy monitoring activities into an efficient, measurable and sustainable privacy risk management capability.

Working closely with Privacy Legal, Risk, Security, Compliance and Engineering stakeholders, you will define how privacy violations are classified, owned, escalated, remediated and reported across the organisation.

What You'll Do

Design the Privacy Violation Operating Model

Create and implement a formal privacy violation governance framework

Define decision trees for privacy incidents and policy violations

Establish remediation, acceptance and escalation pathways

Build Accountability Structures

Define ownership across Privacy, Risk, Engineering and Legal teams

Establish RACI models and governance forums

Formalise exception approval and escalation processes

Manage High-Risk Privacy Issues

Track and oversee High and Very High risk violations

Ensure compliance with remediation targets and SLAs

Escalate overdue or critical issues appropriately

Develop Metrics and Reporting

Define KPIs and KRIs for privacy risk management

Create dashboards covering:

Open violations

Exception aging

SLA performance

Remediation effectiveness

Produce evidence suitable for audit and regulatory review

Drive Continuous Improvement

Analyse recurring privacy risk patterns

Identify root causes and systemic control gaps

Feed recommendations into policies, controls and engineering backlogs

Enable Business Adoption

Facilitate workshops across Legal, Risk, Security and Product teams

Develop operating procedures and response playbooks

Support transition and handover into business-as-usual ownership

What You Bring

Significant experience in Privacy, Risk Management, Compliance or Governance

Strong knowledge of privacy regulations including GDPR

Experience establishing governance frameworks and operating models

Proven ability to work with Legal, Compliance, Security and Technology stakeholders

Experience designing KPIs, KRIs and risk reporting mechanisms

Strong facilitation and stakeholder management capabilities

Excellent documentation and process mapping skills

Nice-to-Have Skills

Privacy programme management

GRC framework experience

Control design and risk assessments

Regulatory audit support

Data Protection Officer support experience

Enterprise risk management methodologies

Benefits & Perks

Opportunity to build a privacy capability from the ground up

High visibility with senior stakeholders

Strategic impact across the organisation

Complex and business-critical privacy governance challenges

Collaborative environment spanning Legal, Risk and Technology functions

Interested?

If you are passionate about privacy governance, risk management and operational excellence, and want to shape the future-state privacy operating model of a global organisation, we would love to hear from you.

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